Bunny Wailer
Bunny
Wailer (born Neville O'Riley Livingston, 10 April 1947 in Jamaica),
also known as Bunny Livingston and affectionately as Jah B,[1] is a
singer songwriter and percussionist and was an original member of reggae
group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. A three-time
Grammy award winner, he is considered one of the longtime
standard-bearers of reggae music. He has been named by Newsweek as one
of the three most important musicians in the world of music.[2]
The
young Livingston actually spent his earliest years in the village of
Nine Mile in St. Ann Parish. It was there that he first met Bob Marley,
and the two toddlers became fast friends. The boys both came from one
parent families; Livingston was being brought up by his father, Marley
by his mother.[3] Later, Bunny's father Thaddeus "Toddy" Livingston
lived with Bob Marley's mother Cedella Booker and had a daughter with
her named Pearl Livingston. Peter Tosh had a son, Andrew Tosh, with
another of Bunny's sisters, Shirley, making Andrew his nephew.[4]
Bunny
had originally gone to audition for Leslie Kong at Beverley's Records
in 1962, around the same time Bob Marley was cutting "Judge Not". Bunny
had intended to sing his first composition, "Pass It On", which at the
time was more ska-oriented. However, Bunny was late getting out of
school, missed his audition, and was told he wasn't needed. A few months
later, in 1963, he formed The Wailing Wailers with his stepbrother Bob
Marley and friend Peter Tosh, and the short-lived members Junior
Braithwaite and Beverley Kelso. As he was by some way the least forceful
of the group, he tended to sing lead vocals less often than Marley and
Tosh in the early years, but when Bob Marley left Jamaica in 1966 for
Delaware, replacing Bunny with Constantine "Vision" Walker, he began to
record and sing lead on some of his own compositions, such as "Who Feels
It Knows It", "I Stand Predominant" and "Sunday Morning". His music was
very influenced by gospel and the soul of Curtis Mayfield. In 1967, he
recorded "This Train", based on a gospel standard for the first time at
Studio One.
He was arrested on charges of possession of cannabis in June 1967 and served a 14-month prison sentence.[5]
"Bunny Wailer-This Train",
"Justice Da Great-Chant One God",
"Bunny Wailer-Armagideon (Armagedon)",
"Bunny Wailer-Blackheart Man",
"Justice Da Great-Trod Along Trod Along (feat. Sanchez)",
"Bunny Wailer-Fighting Against Conviction",
"Justice Da Great-Wicked Dem a Come",
"Justice Da Great-Life Enjoy It While You Can",
"Justice Da Great-Jah Will Be There",
"Justice Da Great-Murder One Bright Day",
"Justice Da Great-Dance to a Love Song",
"Justice Da Great-Why Dem so Bad Mind",
"Justice Da Great-Oh Jah for You I Sing",
"Justice Da Great-I Will Pray for You",
"Bunny Wailer-Dreamland",
"BUNNY WAILER-BURIAL",
"Bunny Wailer-Rastaman",
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